Worth joining TRF with a transalp?

i get bored with road riding pretty easily, and have always deviated down
some gentle green lanes when i could find them (no matter what vehicle i was
driving, a mini, a beach buggy, motorhome, scooter, feck i even went a
little down the viking way on my virago once)

but with the tree huggers getting all upity about anyone else going anywhere
near their sacred lanes, i'm not too keen anymore to just ride down one and
see where it goes.

So i've been thinking of joining the trial riders fellowship, but i'm not
sure if i'd be wasting my time, as my bike is a transalp, and i dont even
have knobbley tyres on it yet,

Anyone on here a member of the TRF, would they be suitable for my kind of
bike? or is there another organization/club i should look at?

I live to the north west of nottingham, so close to the derbyshire dales, i
bought the transalp with the view to do some mild green laning, but can't
find where they are without being a member of an organization that allows
access to the wayfinder project it seems.

 

By joining the TRF you will be supporting a pressure group who will throw
rocks at Janet Shit Poker and her ilk.

You'll get access to their database, as you say. Assuming their
subscription is a reasonable amount, this might be a good thing.

I know TRF members who often ride large BMWs, Tigers & Africa Twins across
trails. There's one group heading for Salisbury Plain this weekend,
organised through the www.UKGSer.com forum.

Have a search to see if there is a similar forum for the Transalp. I'm sure
there must be and you'll get to meet people already doing the stuff you
want to join in. Then there is the huge, and very American, forum
ADvrider.com - I wouldn't bother staying there for long but you might find
a link to a forum with fewer NRA members and a UK bias.

 

Never thought of it like that, my hands in my wallet as i type

30 squids a year, which is not much to most, but is a lot to me (because i'm
a poor deshivled semi spakka who isn't allowed to work (medicaly retired to
quote it's proper name), but what the ****, it's only the food money for
this week , and buying that intercom off ace has saved me a packet as i
was about to buy a new one wit money i didnt really have.

Now that's what i like to gear, if a GS can do it, a transalp should piss it

Havent been near sailsbury for years, about time i went there me thinks,

there's the xrv forum, but not noticed any green lane rides mentioned, but
then again i havent been looking that hard, got disapointed they cancled
next years tour of germany, as i right fancied that, done germany many times
in the motorhome, just need to do it for real on a bike now

 

Then you are not going quick enough.

 

Be very careful where you ride off road these days. Lots of lanes have
TRO's slapped on them. A Transalp will be very hard work on any of the
Derbyshire lanes we have been down BTW.

 

Sounds nasty. Which part of the bike penetrated you?

 

had a little read of the GS forum last night, got side tracked and ended up
reading the entire intercom bit, some very good info on that bit alone,

shame about the autocom bloke who posts there getting upity every time
anyone suggests an improvment to his intercoms, his usual reply is 'we've
been making them for 15 years, so know what we're doing', to questions like
'starcom has this feature, intaride has this accesory, can we have them on
an autocom'

i really want bulkhead mounted sockets, but they wont do them as someone in
america came off his bike and the lead didnt detatch and broke his neck,
surely the answer then is not to make the cables out of steel rope, as
enough people complain about the cables breaking internaly over time, surely
a normal cable will snap in the even your launched off the bike,

intaride have ground loop isolation built in, autocom it's a 30 quid extra
one every lead you use, and he claims it's not a con to make people spend
more money, starcom have remote volume control on the handlebars, autocom
say no one wants that feature,

anyway i'm going ot again arent i.

 

yeah but, no but yeh but like... how long till the safety nazis ban the use
of those wireless communication jobbies on petrol station forecourts, they
transmit dont they, therefore they must be able to blow the whole station up
when you ride in yacking to your pillion through one.

I still prefer wired tho, and dont the headsets have a plug and socket at
the headset end as it exits the helmet anyways, and shirely that'd
disconnect the second the main cable is pulled taught by the rider being
launched over the handlebars.... so there's 2 disconnection points on a set
up anyway, one of them always inline with the rider.